The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16


Arizona.
A PLOT to assassinate the Gar has been
frustrated.
EBEN f. PmLsBuRY, prominent Boston
lawyer, is dead.
THERE are two thousand cases of measles
in Reading, Pa.
REV. JAMES FREEMAN CLARK is still i'm
proving in health.
HEAVY snow-storms are reported in En-
gland and Scotland.
THE Illinois Central railway has with
draw from all pools.
Snow is six or seven feet deep in the
streets of Montreal.
The Cambridge railroad strike was form
ally declared "off last week
CHRISTINE NILSSON, having married, will,
it is said, retire from the stage.
BY his will all of Mr.. Beecher's property
is left to his immediate relatives.
SERIOUS difficulties on the Irish question
have arisen among the conservatives.
RHODE ISLAND democrats have nominated
John w. Davis of Pawtucket for governor.
NAVIGATION on the Hudson between New
burg, n. Y, and New York city is reopened.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is going to name
the interstate railway commission this week
| IL he can.
IT is announced that the New York san
will soon begin the publication of an after
| noon edition.
PROFESSOR RICHARD CHANDLER of North
Truro, Mass, is to start on rowing voyage
around the world.
THE Nicaraguan government announces
that the United States has no control over
the proposed canal.
THE Mississippi river is rising and has
broken through the levees about Vicksburg,
doing great damage.
REV. LYMAN ABBOTT and other clergymen
delivered eulogies upon Beecher in Plym-
outh church Sunday
The Massachusetts house defeated the
woman suffrage resolution-sixty-one yeas
to ninety-seven nays.
THE steamer Yazoo Valley" on the Red
river, burned at Grand Score, La, and three
deck hands were lost.
THE Emperor of Austria said, recently,
that he had every confidence that peace
| would be maintained.
THERE are rumors in New York city that
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad system is
soon to change hands.
GLADSTONE has informed his party that he
himself will lead the opposition to the coer-
cion bill in Parliament.
IT is proposed in Kentucky to make pro-
hibition thorough by extending it to include
the manufacture of jugs.
ONE-FoURTH of the milk-dealers in Boston
are set down by the inspector of milk as
professionally dishonest.
A PAssENGER-TRAIN was ditched at Sharon,
n. T., the mail-car and mail burned and three
persons seriously injured.
A PANIC has prevailed at st. John, N. b.,
| owing to the failure of the Maritime Bank
and two large lumber firms.
A SMALL tract of land has sunk near
| Barnwell S. c., and the people think it is
the result of the earthquakes
IT is denied in Boston that papers leasing
the Boston & Lowell railroad to the Boston
& Maine have been executed.
Two attempts have been made to blow up
the Summer street Bonneville, Mass.) sta
bles of the Cambridge railroad.
AN explosion of melnite occurred last
week in the arsenal at Belfort, France.
Many men were killed or injured.
A RICH vein of gold has been discovered
a few miles from Atlanta. 1t will yield over
a thousand dollars to the ton of ore.
A BILL giving municipal suffrage to
women, which had passed the New York
senate, was defeated in the assembly.
A FOREMAN in the British naval works at
Chatham has been suspended for revealing
designs to Russia and the United States.
THE Maine house defeated the bill pro-
viding for compulsory town school system
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN protests that his fol.
lowers will not yield their original demand
for the integrity of the imperial parliament
A PAssENGER-TRAIN was thrown from the
track on the Concord & Claremont railroad
Monday morning, but no one was much in.
jured.
IT is reported that Rev. Matthew G. Julian
of New Bedford will be called to Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, to succeed Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher
THE earthquake in the Riviera on Friday
was most severe at Alassio. At another
village fifteen houses were demolished and
two persons killed.
THE provisions of the interstate railway
law were discussed last week by seventy.
five New England railroad officials at a
meeting in Boston.
A JoURNEYMAN blacksmith at Verona
Pa, has discovered process by which
copper can be welded or fused as perfectly
and completely as iron.
Mr.. BEECHER's last meal, it is stated
which he partook of after a day of fatiguing
labor, was supper of roast CLANS. His
apoplectic stroke came before morning.
THE funeral of Mrs. Neebe, wife of the
anarchist at Chicago, was conducted with
extreme decorum. About 5000 persons wer,
in the procession, but no red flags displayed
THE Bulgarian regents are promptly pros
ecutlng those engaged IN the recent revolt
Two more leaders have been sentenced tC
death, and one hundred twenty-five wer,
sent to prison.
AT the British admiralty Office in Londor
it is officially denied that the American
legation was in any way implicated in thu
buying of certain naval designs from gov
eminent draughtsman.
WILLIAM HICKMAN, formerly of Philadel
phia, but lately of Boston, has fled to Can
ada, having swindled Bostonians out o
over $4,000 by pretending TO have paten
for making cheap sugar out OF starch.
A STRIP of territory between Kansas ant
Texas belongs to neither, and is know
as "Cimarron Territory" or No Man
Land" The people there have organized
some kind of a territorial government.
THE Western Union Telegraph Compan,
proposes to increase its capital stock 81,
100000, and to fund the guaranteed stock
and bonds of controlled properties. Thu
total amount of these capitalized is $50,
100000.
EVIDENCE has been obtained showing tina
the recent railroad wreck at Needles, Cal.
was caused by a gang of robbers, whit
burned the bridge and took from the ex
press-car diamonds worth Sl25, 900, besides
considerable gold.
Mr.. BEECHER is supposed to have lief
about 500, 600, mostly in personal property
He received a salary of SIS 900 a year, abou
S14 900 from his lectures and 1000 from
royalties on his books, besides S75 a weel
for his syndicate newspaper letter.